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Professor Susnigdha Dey, the first Indian to teach Spanish at an Indian University, began his tryst with His panic studies through an Indian Government scholarship in Spain. Later a fellowship from the Government of Spain made it possible for him to successfully complete his doctoral thesis at the University of Madrid. Prof. Dey received from his Majesty the King of Spain the “Command of the Order of Merit (Civil)” and has been bonoured by the Madrid-based Colegio Mayor Universitario de Africa for his interest in Comparative Literature. He is a Fellow of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany and he has been a visiting Professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Apart from being professor of Spanish, he is at present the Rector of the Jawaharlal Nehru University at New Delhi. He is the Editor of Papeles de la India, the Spanish Quarterly of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, since its inception in the early seventies. His book contemporary Latin American Literature has been brought out earlier by the same publisher.